Abstract

Russian Journal of Applied Chemistry, Vol. 75, No. 8, 2002, pp. 1374 31375. Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Khimii, Vol. 75, No. 8, 2002, pp. 1402 31403. Original Russian Text Copyright C 2002 by Morachevskii. ˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝ BOOK REVIEWS ˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝˝ Moiseev, G.K. and Vatolin, N.A., Nekotorye zakonomernosti izmeneniya i metody rascheta termokhimicheskikh svoistv neorganicheskikh soedinenii (Some Patterns of Variation and Methods for Calculation of Thermochemical Properties of Inorganic Compounds), Yekaterinburg: Inst. Metall. Ur. Otd. Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2001, 136 pp. In the last two decades, much attention has been The book comprises six chapters, conclusion, and given to compiling and supplementing of databases of a common bibliographic list for the entire monograph. thermodynamic quantities for inorganic compounds. The first chapter ( pp. 5338) discusses fundamental Among important sources furnishing new information aspects of how D H varies for related substances in and allowing revision of the existing data are various binary and quasi-binary inorganic systems. The pos- calculation methods. Investigations in this field have sibility of evaluating the standard enthalpies of for- been carried out at the Institute of Metallurgy, Ural mation of oxides, double oxides, intermetallic com- Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, under gen- pounds, carbides, phosphides, borides, and chlorides